Posts by Kevin Cody
Civic center, sales tax, e-bikes, permit fees, public comments all in a night’s work for Hermosa Beach Council [UPDATE]
by Kevin Cody A new civic center, a new sales tax, a new e-bike ordinance, new Conditional Use Permit fees, and new public comment guidelines are all on the agenda for a special Hermosa Beach Council meeting to be held Thursday, February 15. Community input sought on new civic center At top of the Thursday,…
Read MoreRedondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand leaves big shoes to fill. And we must.
by Bob Pinzler It is ironic that Bill Brand, the Mayor of Redondo Beach who died over this last weekend, got his start fighting a project called “Heart of the City.” To many, he was exactly that heart, giving years of his life, including those when valiantly fighting the cancer that ultimately killed him, to…
Read MoreRedondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand: His public service in photos
Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand passed away Friday, February 9, following a four-year battle with stage four lung cancer. He was 65. According to a statement from the City of Redondo Beach, he died at home surrounded by his wife, Diedre, and family and friends after a “sudden turn of health” in the few days…
Read MoreDodgers chill at Manhattan Beach Polar Bear Swim [Updated]
Photos by Steve Zaw by Kevin Cody A new Manhattan Beach community signature event, and a new Los Angeles Dodgers team building exercise were introduced Sunday morning, February 3, at the Manhattan pier with the advent of the First Annual CT3 Foundation Polar Bear Swim. Nearly two dozen Dodgers players, and coaches, participated in the…
Read MorePlein air artist Tom Redfield exhibit at Easy Reader
An exhibit by Peninsula artist Thomas Hunter Redfield will feature his plein air work, much of it painted along the Peninsula coastline. The exhibit will also include his painted cigar boxes, with scenes from his travels around the country. The exhibit opens Saturday, February 3, at the Easy Reader/Peninsula magazine office. 5 p.m. to 8…
Read MoreHermosa Person of the Year presented posthumously to Kevin Sousa
by Kevin Cody This year’s Hermosa Beach Person of the Year Award, for the first time since the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce created the award in 1959, was awarded posthumously. The award was accepted by psychologist and Shock Boxx Gallery owner Mike Collins on behalf of Hermosa therapist Kevin Sousa. In addition to a…
Read MoreWoman found on beach, near water’s edge, by Manhattan Beach Pier
Los Angeles County Lifeguards recovered the body of a woman this morning, Friday, Jauary 26, on the sand, near the ocean waterline, a block north of the Manhattan Beach Pier. The woman had been staying with two male friends at a rental in the 2300 block of The Strand, according to a neighbor. Manhattan Beach…
Read MoreHermosa schools financially healthy, relatively speaking
by Kevin Cody The Hermosa Beach City School District (HBCSD) is financially healthy by comparison to neighboring school districts. Its REU (Reserve for Economic Uncertainty) is 26%, well above the 3% the State requires, according to a budget update presented to the school board last month by HBCSD Business Manager Paula Montalbo The Redondo…
Read MoreInflatable likeness of Rapper Kid Cudi towed off beaches from Long Beach to Marina Del Rey
Redondo Avenues, December 2023 by Tom Kampas
The Avenues during the December swell, as seen by photographer Tom Kampas.
Read MoreEl Porto surfers take on December 2023 Swell. Photos by Dave Weldon
Dave Weldon usually photographs objects in space. In December he focused on El Porto surfers.
Read MoreHermosa Beach 2023: ‘A’ Option BIDS ADU to RHNA of alphabet LVR soup
by Kevin Cody Hermosa Beach housing laws, in 2023, were put through a blender of State mandated legislation, whose alphabet soup of acronyms, and ambitions rival those of the New Deal, where the term alphabet soup was introduced. Whether chopped liver, or liver pate will be the result will depend on the public/private partnerships Hermosa’s…
Read MoreHermosa Beach PD 2023: Something old, something new for Hermosa blue ‘force multipliers’
by Kevin Cody Twice last April, Hermosa Beach police deployed drones to find a lost child. A missing grandchild was found at the ocean’s edge. A special needs child was found on the Greenbelt. “If the community sees our drones flying overhead, it doesn’t necessarily mean a crime is in progress,” Chief Paul Lebaron said…
Read MoreMira Costa High hoopsters triumph over Palos Verdes in Bay League opener
by Paul Teetor Preston “Master P” Ezewiro grabbed a pin-point pass that found him at the low post, wheeled around two Palos Verdes defenders, and threw down a monstrous dunk. The home crowd roared its approval as if to say, finally, this is what we came for. Thirty seconds later he snagged another clever pass…
Read MoreDodgers’ Ohtani, Kings’ Doughty and Brown get the mural treatment in Hermosa Beach
by Kevin Cody Gustavo Zermeno Jr. was rushing to complete his mural of Dodgers Shohei Ohtani, and Kings Drew Doughty, and Dustin Brown Tuesday afternoon before the rain came. But it wasn’t easy because every few minutes passersby would stop him for selfies, which the affable artist never said no to. Zermeno had been working…
Read MoreHermosa Beach Council sets fees for market-priced residential development in commercial districts
by Kevin Cody Pier Avenue, from Monterey Boulevard to Valley Drive, will be lined with market rate and moderate to low income homes and apartments if a program approved by the Hermosa Beach City Council at its Tuesday, December 12 meeting is successful. The program, known as Land Value Recapture, involves rezoning upper Pier Avenue,…
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